Ozone Reduction Strategies
Tips to Reduce Ozone - Voluntary Measures
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Reductions in air pollution can be achieved by a variety of methods including pollution prevention, control technologies, and control measures, and may be implemented through regulatory, market-based or innovative programs.
The following categories identify example strategies for reducing ozone. Please follow the Web links below to view example actions taken by state, local and other organizations to reduce ozone.
EPA Mobile Source Programs
- EPA Green Vehicle Guide
- EPA Clean School Bus USA
- EPA SmartWay Idle Reduction Strategies
- EPA SmartWay Turn Over a New Leaf Campaign
- EPA SmartWay Smell the Flowers Campaign
Lawnmower/gas can exchanges and automobile scrappage
- San Joaquin Valley Air Pollution Control District - Polluting Automobile Scrap and Salvage (PASS) program
- Kansas - Clean Air Lawn Care
- Kentucky - Lawn Care for Cleaner Air
- Mow Down Air Pollution
- South Carolina: Cutting a path for a greener South Carolina"
Idle Reduction Campaigns - No idle zones and truck stop electrification
- American Transportation Research Institute
- Illinois - Doing our Share for Cleaner Air
- Texas - Green Dallas Anti Idling Ordinance
- Utah - Idle Free
- Washington - Puget Sound Clean Air Agency Anti Idling
- New Jersey - Stop the Soot
- North Carolina - Turn Off Your Engine
- California, Port of Los Angeles - Shore Side Power for Ocean-going Vessels
- South Carolina - Breathe Better (B2), an anti-idling/clean air campaign
- Tennessee - Clear the Air Commercial Trucking
Commuter programs
- Arizona - Maricopa's Valley Metro
- Commuter Choice
- CommuteSmart Birmingham
- D.C./Maryland/Virginia - Commuter Connections
- Delaware - Mobility Alternatives
- ecoDrivingUSA
- Florida - Smart Driver Campaign
- Georgia - Clean Air Campaign
- Idaho - Boise Employee Alternative Transportation
- Illinois - Chicago Pace Rideshare
- Maryland - Harford County Commuter Assistance
- Maryland - Bike Annapolis
- Maryland - Bicycle Master Plan Baltimore
- Maryland - Baltimore Metropolitan Council Imagine 2060 (Transportation)
- Michigan - Grand Rapids RidetheRapid
- Michigan - Clean Commute Options
- Michigan - Michivan
- Michigan - rideshare
- Michigan - Detroit Rideshare
- Missouri - Ozarks Transportation Organization
- New Jersey - Greater Mercer Transportation Management Association
- New Mexico - Albuquerque Strive not to Drive
- New York - Commuter Link Go Green Rewards
- New York - 511NY
- Nevada - Club Ride
- North Carolina - Share the Ride NC
- Oregon's Employee Commute Options
- South Carolina - You Hold the Key, SC!
- Teletrips - Work Anywhere On-line tools used by US EPA
- Telework Coalition
- Tennessee - Clean Air Partnership of Middle Tennessee
- Tennessee - Clear the Air
- Tennessee - Clean Air Partnership of Middle Tennessee
- Utah - Clear the Air
- Virginia - Ride Solutions
DOE Clean Cities Coalition
- Department of Energy - Clean Cities Coalition promotes alternative and renewable fuels, fuel economy measures, idle reduction technologies, and new technologies as they emerge.
- Clean Cities Participants - Map
Energy Efficiency
- Arkansas - Clean Air Arkansas
- Connecticut - Sustainable Stamford
- Iowa - Office of Energy Independence
- Maine - Natural Resource Council
- North Carolina - Clean Air Carolina Clean Energy
- Virginia - Arlington Initiative to Reduce Emissions (AIRE)